Our love attends you all.
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ours,W. C. TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ.[41] [41] Private correspondence. Olney, Oct. 2, 1779. My dear Friend,--You begin to count the remaining days of thevacation, not with impatience, but through unwillingness to see theend of it. For the mind of man, at least of most men, is equallybusy in anticipating the evil and the good. That word _anticipation_puts me in remembrance of the pamphlet of that name, which, if youpurchased, I should be glad to borrow. I have seen only an extractfrom it in the Review, which made me laugh heartily and wish toperuse the whole. The newspaper informs me of the arrival of the Jamaica fleet. I hopeit imports some pine-apple plants for me. I have a good frame, anda good bed prepared to receive them. I send you annexed a fable, inwhich the pine-apple makes a figure, and shall be glad if you likethe taste of it. Two pair of soles, with shrimps, which arrived lastnight, demand my acknowledgments. You have heard that when Arionperformed upon the harp the fish followed him. I really have nodesign to fiddle you out of more fish; but, if you should esteem myverses worthy of such a price, though I shall never be so renownedas he was, I shall think myself equally indebted to the Muse thathelps me.
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